Friday, February 08, 2008

Mormon in America

At the Life Point Bible Church in Quincy, Ill., last month, evangelical apologist Rocky Hulse told 35 members that Mr. Romney should not be considered a Christian. Mr. Hulse, a former Mormon, told the group that Mormons believe in more than one god and that they believe God impregnated Mary in the normal fashion, not by granting her a virgin birth. The audience sat rapt.

Scott Gordon, president of the Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research, a Mormon group, says Mr. Hulse is wrong on the facts. Mormons pray to one God, he says, and believe, like most Christians, that Mary was a virgin. Mr. Gordon went on talk-radio shows to rebut claims of other apologists.

In December, while campaigning for the Iowa caucuses, former Baptist preacher and Republican candidate Mike Huckabee asked a magazine reporter: "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"

Yes, this has been akin to anti-Semitism. And besides his merits as a candidate, that's what propelled me to go to Iowa and volunteer for Mitt Romney--Mike Huckabee's sly and ugly talk, as well as a double standard by secular humanists.

As a Catholic who believes in religious principles in the public square, I write this still in anger, and in sorrow.

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